Easy Meal

About this technology

Overview

Oregon Freeze Dry Foods, Inc. commercialized the Easy Meal, adapted from Apollo. This freeze dried food line was designed to provide nutritionally balanced, attractive hot meals for senior adults. In freeze drying process, water is extracted from freshly cooked foods by dehydrating at temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero. Flavor is locked in by packaging the dried food in pouches which block out moisture and oxygen, the principal causes of food deterioration. Thus the food can be stored for long periods without refrigeration. Meals are reconstituted by adding hot or cold water, depending on the type of food and are table ready in five to 10 minutes.